Defendants' drug and racketeering conspiracy sentences are affirmed where 1) despite the district court's occasional imprecision, it plainly accepted defendants' guilty pleas and left them "no reasonable basis" for thinking otherwise; 2) the district court did not impermissibly intrude on the plea-bargaining process; and 3) the district court was not required to hold an evidentiary hearing on the plea agreement.
Read US v. Robinson, No. 07-3127
Appellate Information
Argued September 21, 2009
Decided December 1, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Henderson
Counsel
For Appellants:
Kristen Grim Hughes, Edward C. Sussman and Mary E. Davis, Washington, DC
For Appellee:
Amanda J. Winchester, Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, and John Philip Dominguez, Assistant United States Attorneys